Microsoft acquires Nokia: read all about it here

0.phoneArena03 Sep 2013, 06:36posted on

Quite possibly, the following statement will sound somewhat dramatic for a number of people, but it feels appropriate nevertheless: Microsoft's ~$7.2 billion acquisition of Nokia's mobile phone business, in its near entirety, marks an end of an era...

Why did the investitors prevent this fail ? Do they even now Nokia is the only big entreprise remaining in Europe and Finland ? Do Finland even care about Nokia, and one big company giving to their country a good tax and economy ?

Where did this Flop guy came from ? Man I swear I will never buy Nokia again. They don't have any value for me anymore. Micro$oft arrogance on my PC, Micro$oft arrogance on my best cellphone manufacturer.. Nokia is not existing anymore.

Elop is the real trojan
MS sent him to slow down pace of Nokia
as Nokia could have grown much faster with android
but FLOP gave a stupid reason because of SAMSUNG they didnt went with android
Nokia is being sold at such a cheap value??
thats shocking

Grammar sheck "didnt went" you meant to say they didnt go wtih android. I do disagree we dont need a duopoly in the smartphone world, more OS means more innovation at a competitive price, we dont need prices to skyrocket.

Hey grammar "sheck", it's spelled "didn't", "with", "don't". Also, more OS doesn't mean lower price when the OS maker and the OEMs are two different entities. Android is free, it's WP that is payed. Apple controls their own hardware and software and their prices are the least competitive. You're right about the innovation part though.

So true, and yet so sad. Nokia will never make another Nokia phone not because it will be rebranded as Microsoft, but because MS will tightly control their development. And the saddest thing of all, there will never be a Nokia android device, a thing I dreamed for years.

you are incorrect Nokia still exists as an independent business running the parts of it's Enterprise Microsoft dint buy. the agreement with Microsoft allows that after a few years Nokia can again make Nokia branded smart Phones. the question is will they do that when the time comes they can?

It wasn't stupidity, it was a plan. He is a shill and he alone sunk Nokia for the purpose of driving the price low enough for MS to buy them. If I were a nokia investor I would sue the flock out of he and microsoft.

Too the others that say this is a good deal because we need another dominate platform for competition, sure. However, Nokia had a very decent OS two years ago before elop said to trash it in favor of WP crap. So I would say that those actions alone directly led to where we are today. NOT TO MENTION, if there wasn't some shadiness in this deal, then why did enflop have to "step down" to avoid a "conflict of interest"? Com'on, see the writing on the wall.

juandante Nokia was in trouble before Elop took over. Elop did what he set out to do which was to make Nokia the best Windows Phone 8 OEM. how ever new information has come out that Nokia did not have enough cash to continue it's Windows smart
phone 8 design, testing, manufacturing and sales. Nokia's other businesses needed cash so bad that Nokia is heading for Bankruptcy. MS CEO Ballmer found this out and made the right call he bought Nokia's smartphone division and all it's related patents he could get plus got a long term lease to use the ones Microsoft could not buyout as for Elop being a Trojan I do not think so MR Elop said he always wanted to be a CEO he's lost that position when these financial problems drove Nokia near bankruptcy and Nokia had to sell out it's smart phone division.
The agreement does allow nokia to make smartphones in the Future but will they come back into that industry after all this. the money from Microsoft will save what is left of Nokia

Elop did a mightly fine job in felling the beast that is Nokia, making it succumb to Microsoft's whim, so that it would have a primed and ready device manufacturer to serve its needs. Maybe the Trojan Horse can now be redubbed to the Elop.

that is my question too dude........in 2011 they should choose Android not WP because we know android have some apps in 2011 and that os was growing so fast, not like WP fresh new os with no apps and not growing fast as android.

I will admit, I never expected to see this happen. It is now Item #1 I was wrong about. I do not think it is a good thing for WP. Makes no sense to rid yourself of the Nokia name. I am not stunned, I am numb. Just really really worried for the OS and manufacturer I have grown to believe in.

Folks Nokia still exists as a private company but will be running it's other Business Enterprises that Microsoft did not buy. the agreement with Microsoft allows Nokia to come back into the smart phone business/Feature
cell phone business in the future. Nokia is not dead just regrouping

on the contrary, it may now come true. according to some reports, nokia will remain as nokia and will still produce feature phones. there's going to be some years when it may not be allowed to produce smartphones but it will probably use android soon.

you are wrong to think NOKIA will not someday make a android smart phone because the agreement with Microsoft allows Nokia to make
smart phones in the future. Microsoft only bought out Nokia's existing
smart phone and feature phone ASHa Business. Nokia will now be
an independent company running the businesses that Microsoft did
buy or get a lease on.

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